New member here, great memories of Italy when my wife and travelled there. Can't wait to go back. I am also a big fan of Ducati bikes.

I have recently organized a large box of old family documents and I need to track down the second marriage of my grandfather and the death certificate for his wife. She was from the Turin area, he was a Romanian citizen at the time, and they married about 1937-1939. My grandfather was widowed from this marriage...but he was also trapped behind the Iron Curtain after 1944, and died shortly after gaining his freedom to Germany in 1964.

Where would I start to research a marriage from this period? My grandfather had a German name, and I am told his wife's last name was DeLonghi de la Casa (not easy to do a Google search on that) and she was divorced or widowed and had been married to someone with a title. I do not know when she died, or her birth date, but my grandfather was born in 1901 and she was supposedly a bit older than him.

There has been a strong custom in Italy that determines how children are named:The first male is named after his paternal grandfather.The second male is named after his maternal grandfather.The first female is named after her paternal grandmother.The second female is named after her maternal grandmo...

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